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randys1

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Fri Nov 14, 2014, 03:02 PM Nov 2014

Massey Energy former CEO may go to prison, oh man do I want to see that. [View all]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/don-blankenship-massey-energy-indicted_n_6154480.html


CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Don Blankenship, the steely-eyed executive once dubbed "The Dark Lord of Coal Country," on Thursday became the highest-ranking coal official to face federal charges in the nation's deadliest mine disaster in 40 years.

A federal grand jury indicted the former Massey Energy CEO on numerous counts of conspiracy in the April 2010 underground explosion that killed 29 men at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia.
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